An investigation into the use of light in art from stained glass windows to fluorescent tubes

Monday, March 20, 2006

A short movie - my first!

I have posted a very short (appallingly taken) movie using a projector with rotating colour wheel on the youtube site - accessed from

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qese22BLcXk .

I tried embedding the movie into this site and everything went haywire, so it's shown here via the link instead.

Light is projected through glass that has been sandblasted to make it opaque in parts. The clear line was preserved by masking the glass using a technique of applying pva glue in an organic fluid line. This is the first piece of glass that I have worked with, but I plan to make more!

Yesterday I saw the Albers and Moholy-Nagy exhibition at Tate Modern and am now inspired to create more pieces of glass after Albers' style.


Joseph Albers

Skyscrapers on Transparent Yellow

circa 1929

Sandblasted flashed glass

36.2 x 36.2 cm

Joseph Albers

Skyscrapers B

circa 1929

Sandblasted flashed glass

36.2 x 36.2 cm

I have always been interested in juxtaposing matt and glossy surfaces and the way that Albers achieved this with opaque glass is wonderful. The glass has more luminence than other surfaces and so the glossy section is extremely reflective and more of a foil for the matt finish. I don't know how he achieved the white lines, can anyone else help me? A piece that showed this very strongly is Glove Stretchers 1928. Here is my sketch of the piece:


There were many exhibits that I found pertinent to my Self Initiated Project on trace - these may find their way on to my blog on trace eventually, but one piece by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy was appropriate for here:

Light Prop for an Electric Stage, 1928 - 30 (replica 1970)

Metal, plastic and wood

Spotlights are trained upon the piece that Moholy-Nagy called a moving painting to cast deep shadows on the floor and the walls. There are sharp points of light also, where the light bounces off the reflective surfaces of the metal. He created this piece almost 80 years ago - I find that quite aweinspiring!

posted by Lynda Cornwell @ 3:22 pm

1 Comments:

At 12:59 pm, Blogger sunil said...

I’ve also admired the dynamic composition of the constructions and paintings of the Russian Constructivists and Bauhaus School. I wonder therefore if you have come across the work of El Lissitzky?
Sunil

 

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